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                                                                                       BIOGRAPHY

JJACK MAST -    

Jacques Roland Leon Mast, who signs Jack Mast, was born on September 29 in Paris, in the fifties. He lived in Nogent-Sur-Marne, a city next to Paris and home of many artists. Since he was a child his joy was watching his father and his brother that used to paint by dilettantism. It was then that He made his first drafts, despite his professor of art say that he was very bad in drawing and painting.

Even with no incentive of any kind (for an artist, that means incentivate by itself), he continued painting through the years, but he kept his work to himself.

He worked in several áreas, some involving art, but not always. At the age of twenty He left the army and He moved to Canada to find a clearer direction for his life. In the baggage he took his eternal love for art.

Graduated in decoration, he worked for various commercial and residential sectors, he began to paint pictures ordered by customers and he decided to prepare na exhibition of art.

He was extremely successful. He sold almost all his paintings, and win prizes in Quebec and Montreal. After that, he was invited to exhibit in New York, Morocco, Tunisia, Spain and Belgium. In Venice he met the owner of the gallery Seltie who invited him for an exhibition, this time in his own land: Paris.

In France, his paintings have been exhibited in Aix-en-Provence, Brittany, and Nice Cote D'Azur.

In 2003 he was recognized by the French government with the prize "Metier D'Art."

He continued his work as interior decorator, and he had solo exhibitions sporadically.

In 2006 he decided to visit South America, a dream he had since childhood. In Brazil he falls in love with Sao Paulo and he decides live in this Country forever.

In December 2007 he illustrated the book "The Imaginary Friend" (“O Amigo Imaginário”), by Alessandra Bourdot - published by Toca Disc.

In April 2008 he made his first exhibition in Brazil, “The colors of the Feeling” (“Cores do Sentimento”), in Reserva Cultural, in São Paulo.

His goal is to get impregnate by nature Brazilian and to paint this experience in his paintings, absorbing their colors and their sense of life.

His work is divided into cycles:

1 - Figurative
2 - Neo-figurative
3 – Neo-cubist
4 - Abstract (reflection of his soul)